Strauss and Glassey exponents for semilinear wave equations with a non-effective and not scattering producing damping

Abstract

In this paper, we study the Cauchy problems for a semilinear damped wave equation with a time-dependent coefficient for the damping term belonging to the class of non-effective damping terms with critical decay rates involving iterated logarithmic factors. As nonlinearities we consider both $|u|^p$ and $|u_t|^p$. Assuming nonnegative and compactly supported initial data, we establish the blow-up for weak solutions in the sub-Strauss range $1 < p \leq p_{\mathrm{Str}}(n)$ for the power of the nonlinear term $|u|^p$. The proof in the sub-critical case relies on an iteration frame for the space average of the solution, obtained by employing a time-dependent multiplier related to the coefficient of the damping term. On the other hand, in the limit case $p=p_{\mathrm{Str}}(n)$, we work with solutions of the homogeneous equation with separated variables, and we investigate the properties of a fundamental system of solutions for the corresponding time-dependent ODE, in order to derive an iteration frame for a suitable weighted space average of the solution. Finally, for the derivative type nonlinearity $|u_t|^p$ we prove the blow-up of weak solutions in the sub-Glassey range $1 < p \leq \frac{n+1}{n-1}$ by using a comparison argument for a suitable time-dependent function associated with the corresponding local in time solution.